By Doug Cunningham The next round of NAFTA re-negotiations kick off Friday in Mexico City. The AFL-CIO’s Celeste Drake says how workers are treated is a key issue in re-shaping NAFTA. [Celeste Drake]: “NAFTA is not a trade agreement so much as an investment agreement. An agreement to make it easier to outsource jobs. This ...

By Doug Cunningham [Joseph Flynn]: “No evidence supports the claim that privatizing the VA would bring veterans better care.” AFGE national Secretary-Treasurer Joseph Flynn. The American Federation of Government Employees wants to save the VA from privatization. The union says with 49,000 unfilled positions at the VA, hiring more people to care for vets would ...

By Doug Cunningham [Celeste Drake]: “Is there gonna be a labor chapter? Yes. is the labor chapter going to work? And is it going to raise wages in Mexico so that we can also raise wages in the U.S. and Canada, too? That’s an open question.” The AFL-CIO’s Celeste Drake from the NAFTA re-negotiation talks ...

By Doug Cunningham U.S., Mexican and Canadian civil society groups are delivering hundreds of thousands of “ISDS Out Of NAFTA” petitions. The AFL-CIO, Teamsters, CWA, Machinists Union, UE, Good Jobs Nation and Our Revolution are among the groups demanding ISDS be taken out of NAFTA. Some members of Congress and other civil society groups want ...

By Doug Cunningham Unifor – Canada’s biggest labor union – is very pleased that the Canadian government is demanding an end to anti-union ‘Right To Work’ laws in the U.S. as NAFTA is re-negotiated. Canada believes the U.S. and Mexico are lowering labor standards, giving them unfair trade advantages over Canada in NAFTA. Unifor President ...

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